Background, Historical Perspective and Current Discussions
- Video description of the transport plan in Disney's E.P.C.O.T (city of tomorrow) announced in 1966 (start at 10:45) features extensive PRT-like network
- 2016 article that provides a history of driverless vehicle efforts over that past few decades
- Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, June, 1975
- Future Urban Transportation Systems report by the Stanford Research Institute, 1968
- Lea Transit Compendium on PRT, 46 pages, 1975 (includes 11 system descriptions - courtesy of Lea+Elliott)
- Lea Transit Compendium: PRT Supplement, 21 pp, 1975 (courtesy of Lea+Elliott)
- The State of Urban Transportation, by J. Edward Anderson, 1970
- Tomorrow's Transportation: New Systems for the Urban Future, report to Congress, 1968
- The Federal Role in the Development of Automated Peoplemovers in the 1970's: Some Historical Recollections, by Charles Broxmeyer, 1990
- Brief history of the UMTA Downtown People Mover (DPM) program, initiated in 1976
- Brief history of the UMTA Advanced Group Rapid Transit program
- Reflections on the Federal New Systems Study Project , by H. Wm. Merritt, April, 1993
- Project METRAN (Metropolitan Transportation): An Integrated, Evolutionary Transportation System for Urban Areas, by a group of M.I.T faculty and students, 1968
- The Structure of Transportation Revolutions, by Daniel Sweeny, January, 2005
- Complete listing of Books and Published Papers on PRT by J. Edward Anderson, 1953-2006, copies available from him, upon request.
- Boeing's Personal Rapid Transit System History
- Position Paper: Urban Mass Transit Administration's Program of Development and Deployment of Automated Guideway Transit, by J.E. Anderson, June, 1979, 25 pp.
- AGT activities and demonstrations at Transpo '72, held at Dulles International Airport
- Review of three major national-scale studies funded by the US DOT (National Maglev Initiative, Automated Highway Systems and New Systems Assessment)
Dualmode Transport (DM)
Analysis of Urban Dualmode Transportation, by Peter Benjamin, written in 1973
Dualmode, by Professor Dwight Baumann, 1970
Dualmode Debate page offers a variety of views regarding a wide range of dualmode issues
Description of Dualmode Transportation Study being conduced by CEETI, at Texas A&M University, 2006-2007
The Revolutionary Dualmode Transportation System, by Francis D. Reynolds, e-book, 22 chapters, 2006
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) or Personal Automated Transit (PAT)
- Automated Guideway Transit: An Assessment of PRT and Other New Systems, 1975
- Innovation and Public Policy: The Case of PRT , 1979, by Catherine G. Burke
- Fundamentals of Personal Rapid Transit , 1978, by Jack Irving, et al,
- Lessons from the History of PRT , by J. Edward Anderson, August, 1996
- Evolution of PRT, by J. Edward Anderson, 2009
- Information about the content and availability of the 1988-89 technology assessment of Personal Rapid Transit (PRT), conducted by the Advanced Transit Association
- PRT 2000 Status Report by Peter Samuel, November, 1996
- Photos Taken at the PRT 2000 Test Facility
Last modified: August 04, 2016